Overview of the Setup Process

1Purchase a Subscription

Go to cloud.oracle.com/log-analytics. Don't have an oracle.com account? Click here to sign up.

Purchase a paid subscription. When approved, you will get an activation email titled:

Welcome to Oracle Cloud. Start your service.

2Activate Your Paid Service

Click Complete My Order in the welcome email.

You will then get an activation email titled:

Setup Complete. You are ready to go.

This email contains the details required to access the service.

3Before You Begin

Review the following topics in Deploying and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents at Oracle Help Center:

Overview of Deploying IT Analytics and Log Analytics

Prerequisites for Deploying Oracle Management Cloud Agents

4Download the Master Installer

Sign in to My Services by accessing cloud.oracle.com/sign-in.

Click Launch Oracle Log Analytics Cloud Service.

The Welcome page of the Set Up Log Analytics wizard is displayed.

Navigate through the wizard till the Download page is displayed.

Download the Master Installer to a shared directory that can be accessed by all the target hosts in your data center.

Extract the contents of the master installer ZIP file.

5Deploy the Gateway

Identify a host in your data center with Internet access to Oracle Management Cloud.

Copy the installer script (AgentInstall.sh) to the host.

Go to the directory where you copied the installer script.

Run the installer script to deploy the gateway.
For more information about running the script, refer to Running the AgentInstall Script in Deploying and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

6Deploy the Data Collector

Deploy the data collector on a host with SSH and SQL access to the Oracle Management Repository in your data center.

Go to the shared directory where you copied the installer script to.

Run the installer script to deploy the data collector on your Oracle Management Repository host.
For more information about running the script, refer to Running the AgentInstall Script in Deploying and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

7Deploy Cloud Agents

Go to the directory where you copied the installer script.

Deploy cloud agents on hosts for which you'd like to analyze logs.

Run the installer script to deploy cloud agent.
For more information about running the script, refer to Running the AgentInstall Script in Deploying and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.